so why am i here in windsor? why am i anchoring the news in a tuxedo? well, we're just hours away from the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. they went on that traditional walkabout visiting crowds of well-wishers. we're going to be back at midnight with our count down to the big event. you don't wanto miss that. our live coverage of the arrivals and wedding, that's going to begin at 4:00 a.m. eastern. our cnn special report, though, a royal match harry and meghan, that starts right now. see you soon. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. he was the party prince. >> he was photographed incessitantly running out of one

nightclub after another. >> who rebelled. he struggled to find his way. >> being royal for harry was a burden and a curse. >> she's an american actress. >> i was like i've got to up my game. >> unlike any royal bride before. >> let's go back a few generations and everything about meghan markle disqualifies her from marrying harry. >> a modern royal couple who will change history. >> the queen made an exception and broke royal protocol. >> redefining royalty. >> do you see any scenario by which harry and meghan overshadow kate and william? >> it was my first thought. >> and modernize the monarchy. >> the world's view of the british monarchy is probably going to be more determined by

harry and meghan than william and kate. that's a very unusual situation. >> tonight a cnn special report, a royal match, harry and meghan. >> i've never even heard of her until this said meghan markle i walike, right, okay, give me a bit of background. >> it is july 2016 in london when britain's most eligible bachelor, prince harry, is set up on a blind date. >> it was definitely a set up. it was a blind date. >> i was beautifully surprised when i walked into that room and saw her, and there she was sitting there. okay, i have to up my game. >> harry ups his game and they begin a whirl wind romance. just weeks later they're vacationing together in botswana, africa. >> we camped out with each other under the stars.

we spent five days out there which was absolutely fantastic. >> in the months that follow they date long distance. meeting up in london and toronto where meghan, an actress, is filming her tv show, suits. >> wow, you're pretty. >> the whole time keeping their relationship a secret. >> when they first met nobody knew about it. >> reporter: penny junior wrote a biaugraeography about harry. >> the great fear about harry finding a wife was always going to be the intrusion of the press, because that is what had killed two previous long-term relationships. >> relationships with an actress and his first love chelsea davy. >> chelsea had experienced the most horrible treatment. the photographers waiting for

her would call out names, slag, bitch, whore. and she said do i want this in my life >> telling about a quote, massive paranoia he feels in finding a girlfriend. >> i think harry's great fear was if that relationship prematurely became public they would be absolutely swamped with media interest, and that would change the dynamic of his relationship. >> and what happened to his mother is never far from his mind. >> harry and his brother still feel that, you know, the paparazzi and the press intrusion were partly responsible for his mother's death and thought why would anyone want to put up with this for me?

>> harry wants to keep his relationship private, but after four months after that first date the news is out and the paparazzi pounce once again. >> i mean there was a foot photographer who got inside meghan's house in toronto. the paparazzi were camping on her mother's front lawn and following and harassing all members of her family, anybody who knew her. >> despite starring in a tv show meghan is relatively unknown. now the british press want to know who she i and if she's fit for the royal family. >> she was a woman who has been married. people are fascinated by the fact she's divorced, by her background, acting, can rurea c woman. >> they also have not seen someone biracial dating a member of the royal family. and some of the conversation is blatantly racist.

>> there was one newspaper headline saying straight out of compton suggesting she was from a gang ridden neighborhood. >> hersh is a journalist and recently wrote a book about race, identity and belonging in britain. >> would harry be dropping around for tea in gangland, which was very clearly racially loaded. >> a whole other issue exploded which was the social media racist comments began to flow in from the darkest vilest corners of the internet. >> the royal families responds in unprecedented fashion with prince harry's team releasing a statement confronting the quote, abuse and harassment meghan is facing. >> it's very unusual for a statement to come out. >> no one understands this better than dickey arbiter. he was press secretary at the palace for 12 years.

>> he was very angry, and it was sort of a back off reminder of what they did to his mother. >> why is it that you think that meghan's upbringing, her race, why did that garner so much attention? >> in the past members of the royal family, princes would have married princesses. and when harry's father, prince charles, was looking for a wife it was also a requirement that a wife should be a virgin and a member of the church of england. >> you just go back a few generations in the royal family and everything that you can say about meghan markle disqualifies her for marrying harry. >> kate coin is the executive editor of people magazine. >> this is precisely why you had edward abdicating his throne so he could marry an american divorcee. >> wasn't charles' and diana's

marriage a weup collin some perfect but it has to be dy chemistry and the freedom to marry who they want. >> i think it was a lesson that they learned. >> harry is desperate for history not to repeat itself. and he's anxious to protect meghan. >> harry's statement was the most romantic thing a member of the royal family has ever done, and i think engagement watch was on from that moment. it was let's wait for the ring. >> the ring comes in november 2017. >> prince harry has announced his wedding engagement to american actress meghan markle. >> and the royal family welcomes meghan with open arms. >> the queen made an exception and broke from protocol. that was the first time a royal

fiance has ever done that before actually marrying into the royal family. >> a powerful sign the queen and monarchy are changing. >> the queen first and foremost wants her grandson to be happy. >> and that happiness is something harry has been searching for most of his life. when we come back, the moment that changes everything. >> he didn't really deal with what life without her meant. it destabilized him and caused chaos for years. been trying to prepare for this day... and i'm still not ready.

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september 15, 1984, prince henry charles albert david is born. >> harry came into the world very different to his brother who was heralded as the next in line to the throne of england. and harry was the spare. >> paul barel was princess diana's butler. >> all through harry's years he always knew he was second. >> he was always referred to as a spare, just always second best. and i think that had a profound effect on harry. >> his childhood is also impacted by his parent's marital troubles. >> harry grew up in a a very, very tricky household. the prince and princess were never happy together. in a marriage that had failed

before it even began. >> i remember the time when diana was shut away and quiet and crying and the boys would write little messages, please don't cry, mummy, and they would put it under the door. >> when charles and diana divorce it hits harry hard. and then one year later his mother is killed. harry is just 12 years old. >> this incredibly loving figure who had given him so much warmth and comfort in what was a very difficult childhood, an extraordinary upbringing, was suddenly gone. >> i remember harry coming back to kensington palace. shortly after the funeral he ran down the corridor and flung himself into my arms and cried. and his tears wet my shirt through. he was devastated.

>> harry later admits to i tv he has deep pregrets about his final phone call with his mother. >> i can't really necessarily what i said, but all i do remember is -- is probably regretting for the rest of my life how short the phone call was, and if i'd known that was the last time i was going to speak to my mother, the things that i would have said to her. looking back on it now it's incredibly hard. i have to sort of deal with that for the rest of my life. >> guilt and grief he never expresses at the time. >> i think it was a classic case of don't let yourself think about your mom and the grief and the hurt that comes with it because it's never going to bring her back. and it's only going to make you more sad. people deal with grief in different ways, and my way of dealing with it was by just basically shutting out, locking it out. >> prince harry arrives here at

eaten, the prestigious boys boarding school a year after his mother's death. and now he moves into the same house as his older brother william, harry reportedly struggles academically and is miserable. >> diana always said she never wanted harry to go to eaton because he would be compared to his brother's success. and she thought this woulbe the uning o harry's confidence. >> princearry said that he decided he was going toe bad boy. >> journalist angela levine interviewed harry last year at kensington palace. >> so that the reason he didn't do well there was partly his fault, was deliberate. >> in 2002 headlines emerge of harry's drinking and marijuana use. for the first time harry is facing the public pressure. it comes with his famous family.

did it seem to brits that it was more than just typical teenage antics? >> you know, teenagers do drink too much. they do behave badly. it's all part of the growing up process, but i personally was worried it was something deeper. there was a touch of self-medication going on. >> after graduating from eaton harry escapes to africa during his gap year for humanitarian work. >> it was an escape from this heavy-duty world of royalty, always being watched, always being photographed. he could be very ordinary. >> he spends two months with children in need and others whose parents died from aids. >> he could see there were holes there in their lives, and i think absolutely he saw in them something he felt was missing in his life, care, love, and attention, the loss of his mother. >> harry not only falls in love

with the children and the country, he begins a serious romance with a wealthy girl from southern africa, chelsea davy. >> she's very free spirited, not someone who felt bound by royal protocol or tradition and also shared his love of africa. d the two of them traveled expensively through africa together. >> chelsea remains a constant in harry's life for years to come. >> she also came into his life at a time he was missing that female figure to support him. and i think chelsea did that and understood him, and she could understand that he'd been through a very difficult time and was still going through a very hard time. >> a very hard time that harry struggles to overcome. when we come back -- >> prince harry got so low that he decided at one point that he might leave the royal family. >> and then meghan markle's

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♪ >> born in 1981 she was the only child of dorria ragland and thomas markle. >> meghan's father was a lighting direct for a number of shows in the los angeles area, most notably "married with children." he eventually became the director of photography and that was the sort of behind the scenes less glamorous side of hollywood. >> meghan recounts spending time with her father on the let late night show. >> i was there for ten years. >> wow. >> i know. it's a very perverse place for a little girl who went to catholic school no less to grow up. >> meghan certainly had every reason to be dazzled by tv, film, the whole on-camera experience from a very young age because she grew up around it. >> we all knew she wanted to be an actress.

>> christine is meghan's former teacher. >> he was in the musical, in the plays. she would sparkle when she got on stage, and i think it was just kind of in her blood. she loved it. >> despite two loving parents, meghan struggles with her biracial identity. >> i think she was kind of grappling a little bit with the sense of her identity and trying to understand who she was. >> josh is a senior writer for vanity fair who covered meghan. >> her father was white, her mother was black. she didn't want to circle one implying her mother was more important than her father, vice versa. >> meghan's parents go out of their way to make sure she does not fl different but special. >> her family in whichhere was a black mom barbie doll and a white dad ken doll and then a

baby barbie doll in each color. but even that kind of points to how difficult it is to be meghan at that age because the children were still either black or white. there was no biracial barbie baby doll for meghan. >> while the markle household deals with race head on, years of built-up racial tensions in the country explode right in meghan's backyard. >> she was driving i think with her mom and i think there was like debris and she thought it was snowing. and then she realized it was actually a riot. >> riots that erupt when four white police officers are acquitted in the beating of a black man, rodney king. a moment meghan says impacts her at a young age. >> it definitely opened meghan's eyes to the fact that this was a world that was not always going to treat her fairly and was not always going be kind to her or to her family.

>> i was teaching here at the time, and i think it destroyed kind of that feeling that l.a. is this wonderful place to live, and you have all these different kinds of people and we all get along, and then this just kind of smashed that. >> it's a grim reality for an 11-year-old to face. and one that would always be present. >> meghan witnessed her mother experiencing racism. she has heard the names her isl aware that is happening she rly, and that is the color of her mom's skin. >> meghan's early appearances to discrimination are not limited to race. one commercial stands out to her. >> women are fighting greasy pots and pans. >> in the ad they implied the

product was just for women who were at home doing the cleaning. >> 11-year-old meghan tells nick news what she thinks. >> i don't think it's right for girls to grow up thinking these things, that just mom does everything. >> she was irate. it's not just moms who do dishes. and she wrote a letter. >> so i was wondering if you'd be able to change the commercial to people across america. >> and wouldn't you know it, it worked. >> the gloves are coming off. people are fighting greasy pots and pans with ivory clear. >> it had to be such a wonderful reinforcement for her shoot she could take a stand, make a difference and not be dismissed. when we come back, prince harry and the burden of royalty. >> she really did love him, but being with harry and the huge

circus that came with it was overwhelming for her. >> she didn't want to be a princess. >> i don't think any sane person wants to be a princess. we test all of our paints and stains for months. or even years. because you deserve paint that's done right. that's proudly particular. benjamin moore. the standard for paint professionals. only at local paint and hardware stores.

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>> dressed as a nazi. >> that just seems like a moment of extremely bad judgment. >> it was a moment of complete and utter thoughtfullessness. he was young, very troubled and he was drinking far too much and he was a bit of a loose canon. >> at just 20 years old harry and earning a reputation as reckless and self-destructive. >> he was photographed incessitantly after he left school falling out of one nightclub after another. >> and he has a run in with the paparazzi that leaves a photographer with a split lip. >> for many years it was a worry about what would happen to harry because he didn't seem to want to be a royal. he really kicked against it. he wanted to be a normal human being. >> when harry arrives at san hurst military academy in may

the pressure is onto turn over a new leaf. >> people were concerned harry vish royal lifestyle harry has e become accustomed to. and throughout the 44-week grueling training course he's treated like every other soldier. >> it can be said it knocks a bit out of you. >> he was chief of the british army. >> in the early days in the first five or six weeks when the training is really tough, it encourages people to rely on each other, to help each other. >> harry is one of the guys, yet there are painful reminders he's still a royal. when his unit deploys in iraq in may 2007 harry is forced to stay behind. >> there had been a number of specific threats specifically aimed at prince harry, and it's for that reason that i've decided that the risk to prince

harry is too great. >> i think when he was told he couldn't go it was a really low point for him. >> i didn't sort of join the army thinking i would never go on operations. it was very hard. and i said could one of the main reasons i'm not going is the fact of who i am. >> but months later a secret deployment to afghanistan gives harry a taste of the front lines. >> as far as i'm concerned i'm out here as a normal on the ground and not prince harry. for once i think it was about as normal as i'm going to get. >> it was a turning point in his life, but i think he realized the seriousness of life, really rose to the responsibilities. >> but after ten weeks on the ground his mission is leaked and harry is immediately evacuated. >> it wouldn't have taken others long toave searched around and perhaps found where he was. so there was a risk to him.

but i think also there was an increased risk to him, there was an increased risk to the other soldiers who were around him. and the only safe thing to do was to bring him back. >> he was very angry. to use the words of his private secretary, he was boiling mad and he sort of headed for the gutter. he started drinking very heavily. he was fed up with who he was. >> who he was is also causing tension in his relationship with his long-time girlfriend chelsea davy. >> she really wasn't that fast at all with the trappings that came with prince harry. >> in april 2011 harry brings chelsea here to westminster abbey for the wedding of his brother prince william and kate middleton. there are 1 million people lining these streets and millions more watching on tv around the world. it's an intense spotlight that chelsea struggles to cope with. >> actually she was very

determined that would not be her life and she happened a career of her own, and ultimately i think that was one of things that ended their relationship. she didn't want to live inside the goldfish bowl. >> harry didn't either, and he was determined to return to the battlefield. >> that time in afghanistan had given him ten weeks to be a normal young man, and he desperately wanted to replicate that again. and he accepted and his private secretary assessmented probably the only way he could go back was within the anonymity of being inside a helicopter and he therefore needed to learn how to fly a helicopter. >> after two years of training he not only becomes an apache pilot he was the top gun. >> he got it on his own. it wasn't because he was a prince. he actually had to fight very hard for . he was one of the very top

apache attack helicopter pilots. >> harry returns to afghanistan in september 2012. >> he did anticipationally well. >> you go out there with the anticipation of having to use the weapons systems and bring them to bear without any collateral damage and also conduct yourself in a way that's safe in the most demanding of environments. >> i actually believe that his success on that apache -- on those apache aircraft was the making of harry. i think harry who had spent all his life being second best to his brother, being the spare, suddenly found something that he could do and do better than anybody else. and that gave him confidence that he had never, ever had before. and he just -- it changed him, i think. >> when harry leaves the army after ten years of service, his

future is uncertain. >> i don't think there are any career options for a royal prince. it's easy for william. he's heading towards the throne. i think being royal for harry was a burden and a curse because he was only the spare. what was his job? what was his way forward? >> as harry finds his way, another romance is on the rocks. this time with his girlfriend of two years. >> she really did love him, but i think the situation of being with harry and the huge circus that came with it was overwhelming for her. >> i think she took one look at what le with harry would have involved and just turned her back o it. you know, she didn't want to be a princess. >> i don't think any sane person wants to be a princess. >> how would want to be a royal princess? it's a burden. when we come back, harry opens up about his royal role.

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after graduating from northwestern university, meghan markle moves home to los angeles. she's eager to chase her acting dreams, but the industry is tough. >> that is an industry that is built on judging you and tearing you down and rejecting you and making you second guess your weight and your skin and your hair and your talent and your poise. >> it's brutal. it's brutal. >> harvey young was meghan's acting professor in college. >> when you leave college it's a pretty bleak world of just laying bare your soul as part of an audition before a casting agent and then more often than not being told no.

>> for meghan her identity struggle is magnified in hollywood. what has she said about how her race impacted her getting jobs? >> casting agents weren't always sure what to make of her. is she going out for latina role, is she somehow italian or maybe mid eastern or is she african-american? is she caucasian? she undoubtably felt at times casting agents just threw up their hands. >> cast over for parts she got small roles. >> maybe she'd be there for one scene or one moment. she was famously a deal or no deal girl. she had her little moment opening one of the briefcases. >> she has said her 20s were

brutal. meghan has struggled a lot. to become a successful actress, that's like winning a lottery ticket. i mean the number of forces that have to combine to get you even the smallest scrap of success are so astronomical. >> meghan auditions for ten years, and then at 29 she lands a significant role, a female lead on usa network's legal drama "suits." >> is this not a job to you because i take my job seriously. >> she got lucky. she had excellent chemistry with her co-stars and she hit the jack spot. >> "suits" is an instant hit. >> "suits" radically changed meghan's life. first and foremost she was now making more money than she'd

ever made ever. >> as the show makes a big success she makes big changes to her life. >> when they met she was still largely an aspiring actress, he was an aspiring producer. they were essentially at the same place in their careers, and then "suits" really took off, and they weren't going in the same direction anymore. she was filming in toronto, he was in los angeles. there were thousands and thousands of miles between them. >> determined to use her position for good meghan spends her free time advocating for women. during a panel discussion meghan recounts how the success of the show emboldened her to stand up for herself. >> every script seemed to begin with rachel enters wearing a towel, and i said nope, not doing it. at a certain point you feel empowered enough to just say no. >> she wanted to encourage other women to feel like they could speak up in the same way. >>eghan useser fame to

fight for women's equality across the world. as an ambassador for the non-profit world vision, meghan travels to a remote village in rwanda where young girls walk hours every day to access clean water for their families. >> this is the water she's going through all this work to get. >> but all that changes when the world vision team builds a new well. >> these girls are able to stay in school because they aren't walking hours a day to get water. and this clean water source has changed the entire community. >> she has a sense that if she's been given a platform, if she has some influence, that there's a responsibility she has to use that for good. >> laura is the chief marketing and development officer for "world vision." she travels with meghan to india in january 2017.

they visit a local businesswoman in mumbai. >> she's created a business where they make maxi pads. they manufacture them, and then she has a team of effectively sales people that go door-to-door talking to women about how they handle menstruation. >> meghan comes home and writes an essay in "time" magazine drawing attention to the barriers for girls across india. and she continues to mentor suhani to this day. >> she's happy to have a call and talk about the issues we might be experiencing or any help we may need from her in terms of fund-raising and marketing and any kind of support like that. >> this is not a celebrity who floats in, who needs a platform

issue to associate with their quote-unquote brand. this is a woman who's had a desire to help in some way for a very long time, promote the faces and stories of women and to begin to elevate them. when we come back, harry and meghan and the future of the monarchy. do you see any scenario by which harry and meghan overshadow kate and william? >> oh, yes i do. it was my first thought. this could be a problem. discover card. hey, i'm curious about your social security alerts. oh! just sign up online and we'll alert you if we find your social security number on any one of thousands of risky sites. that sounds super helpful. how much is it? well, if you have a discover card, it's free. no way! yes way! we just think it's important for you to be in the know. all right! hey... ewww! everything ok? being in the know is very good. yeah, it is. ooo don't shake! don't shake!

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summer 2017. it's been 20 years since princess diana's death and prince harry is speaking aut it in the first time in documentary for the bbc. >> when you're that young and something like that happens to you, it's lodged in your heart and your head and stays there for a very, very long time. >> for nearly two decades, harry said he held back his grief. >> he didn't really deal with what life without her meant i think for a very long time. and then when he did finally confront it, it destabilized him and caused chaos for years. >> i spent a long time with my head buried in the sand thinking i don't want to be prince harry,

i don't want this role. why did this have to happen to me? >> prince harry considered a drastic move. >> harry got so low, he decided at one point he might leave the royal family. >> i think he was born into it, it wasn't his choice and he felt very cross about that. >> did diana's death affect harry differently than william? >> harry was that much younger. last year for the first time he admitted for the first time having mental health issues. you can't help having mental health issues, and not be able to grieve the way you and i are able to do. he bottled it all up inside him. >> now he's letting it out to end the stigma around mental

health. >> never really talked about losing my mom at some age. i always thought it ain't going to change it, it ain't going to bring her back and when you start thinking like that, it can be damaging. >> and harry ultimately choose as future he hopes will make his mother proud. >> i felt an overwhelming connection with many of the children i met. now all i want to do is try and fill the holes my mother has left. that's what it's about for us, in making a difference, making her proud. >> he spends much of his time working on the charity he created for the children he met in africa. >> you look at harry's work with hiv and aids. that was something that his mother, as harry said, smashed through the stigma of that when she was alive. >> and he's focused on the invictus games, an olympic-style competition he started to give

wounded veterans a chance to be defined by more than their injuries. >> it's life changing. it really is life changing for them. >> i think he has used his own experience of loss and sadness and bereavement to help these soldiers. it didn't just mean losing someone, it means losing yourself, too. >> he's embraced who he is. it took him a long time to get there but he now fully understands that being prince harry, he can make people better by putting his name to things. he's making a difference. >> through it all harry has endeared himself to the public, becoming one of the most popular members of the royal family. >> harry is incredibly likable, and he is incredibly genuine. what you see is what you get. he is so natural with people, much more -- i think he's the most natural member of the family. he throws out the rule book.

>> and tha makes him enormously valuable to the monarchy. >> here at buckingham palace they used to say what are you going to do about harry? now they're going to say what are you going to do with harry? because harry is a magic bullet. >> as harry helps carry the monarchy forward, he will continue to do things his own way, like proposing to the woman he loves, not someone british royalty might expect. >> i think it's a wonderful coincidence that harry has fallen in love with somebody who is american, mixed race, divorced and a career woman. she is very representative of our society today, and i think that makes the monarchy much more user friendly. >> and in meghan, harry has found someone who can cope with the role and is not afraid of the spotlight. >> megan w ameghan was utterly

enchanting. . she behaved as if she'd been here all her life. >> and harp e harry and meghan t married here. it will be a modern wedding for a modern couple. >> she does what she feels comes naturally, and harry is the most relaxed member of the royal family. >> do you see any scenario by which harry and meghan overshadow kate and -- >> oh, yes, i do, i do. immediately it was my first thought, you know, this could be a problem. because harry and meghan are a very compelling couple. they're very charismatic and very relaxed and easy. the cameras will follow them. william and kate are -- there's a much more rigidity to them.

as possiblyre has to be because he's going to be king. >> to some who he known the family well, harry and meghan will play a critical role in the monarchy's future. >> the world's view of the british monarchy is probably going to be determined more by harry and meghan than by william and kate. that's a very unusual situation. >> the royal family need harry to bridge the gap between the people and the monarchy because without that connection, the royal family wouldn't survive. >> as he has his whole life, prince harry will likely continue to be a star in the royal show. with his irresistible appeal, down-to-earth charm and, like his mother, a natural ability to connect. with meghan by his side, this modern royal couple are on course to redefine britain's

most famous family and change the monarchy forever. ah, here we go, the pomp and the pageantry, the flags and the fascinators, the royals and the romance. the sun is rising on what is truly an historic day, not on here in windsor, england. but around the world everyone is watching. good morning. no matter where you are, i'm don lemon. >> and i'm clarissa ward just outside winds